Maksimilian, the brother of Franco Jožef, emperor of the Habsburg Monarchy, was made emperor of Mexico in the middle of the 19th century and created an army of 6,000 imported soldiers - Mexicans, among whom were also many Slovenian boys. Today it is not talked about much, but the memory of them lives on, ...
Despite the somewhat bad reputation of Ljubljana's Fužina, it is possible to find a pleasant corner right there, at the end of Fužina, where you can spend active hours with your little ones or sit in the garden and drink coffee in peace. Peter Maver is the owner of the Sombrero bar, which will celebrate its tenth anniversary this year. Despite the fact that in Sombrero...
Movie Caffe is that social corner in the lower part of the Ljubljana Coliseum, where the actors gather after the premieres and where it is the most lively before and after the film screenings. Why not, because the ambiance with a movie theme is created for a movie atmosphere. Scenes from the most cult movies follow each other on the walls and...
It was April 1999. At that time, it started in Postojna's Avio pub with a free drink fest, which marked the beginning of the operation of today's one of the best pizzerias in Postojna. Robi and Ana, who today run the bar together with Valter, have already been working on the idea of a bar next to the airport, and this year it's been ten years since...
There is not a person from Kamnica who does not know the man who saved the Kamnica coffee industry. Florjan Mlakar, a well-known Kamnik café owner with gallant manners, invited his guests to the famous Kamnik Veronika for twenty years, until last year. Last year, however, due to a chain of events, he was left without his beloved central cafe, but he quickly started...
Ah, what a man would give to find good seafood here on the mainland. But not the haute cuisine, priced salted and with a seafood offering hidden among the haute cuisine. No, I want that real atmosphere, the fish butchers down by the sea, where they don't mess with artificial additives to the fish, but prepare them the way...
Which environment gives you more inspiration; a group of children in workshops or a bulky waste with interesting waste? Sometimes some groups - of children or adults - are really interesting, funny movements happen in...
Where the murkas bloom, where the birds sing is the legendary song of the Avseniks, and under the hills, where the murkas really bloom, we can find the Murka pizzeria, located right next to the Mekinje monastery, from where we can enjoy a beautiful view of the surrounding Kamnik-Savinja Alps. Milenko, the owner of the pizzeria, has long been making sure that his guests...
Absinthe, a mystified green intoxicant, fatal for the weak and a gateway to the next world for the strong, is a strong and aromatic spirit with a high alcohol content. It is characterized by the mystique with which it was characterized by French artists and the ban on sales in the 1980s, but in modern Ljubljana it is most marked by the appearance of...
Cult became more widely known when President Bush rode your bike home. What is the background story? It started twelve years ago in a small bicycle shop in Idrija, Čuk. In those days it was difficult to buy a good mountain bike. It was easier to go to Italy for...
In the capital, we are richer for the first Scandinavian bar Pri Larsu. On Gornji trg in Stara Ljubljana, Norwegian Lars Jenssen fulfilled his long-standing dream and opened his own bar. A combination of circumstances made it possible for him to open this one right in Ljubljana. The London-trained sommelier and cocktail mixer has a special...
"Domžale's cakes have always been famous, but there was none better than Lenčkova's." The paraphrase of Prešeren's poem beautifully describes the Domžale confectionery tradition, which dates back to November 29, 1938, when Janez Lenček opened the first confectionery in Domžale. At that time still in the house...